“The Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert talk about the two ‘hungers.’ There is the Great Hunger and there is the Little Hunger. The Little Hunger wants food for the belly; but the Great Hunger, the greatest hunger of all, is the hunger for meaning… There is ultimately only one thing that makes human beings deeply and profoundly bitter, and that is to have thrust upon them a life without meaning. There is nothing wrong in searching for happiness. But of far more comfort to the soul is something greater than happiness or unhappiness, and that is meaning. Because meaning transfigures all. Once what you are doing has for you meaning, it is irrelevant whether you’re happy or unhappy. You are content – you are not alone in your Spirit – you belong.” – Laurens van der Post
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20Jul
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27Nov
I would be a friend to the friendless and find joy in ministering to the needs of the poor. I would visit the sick and afflicted and inspire in them a desire for faith to be healed. I would teach the truth to the understanding and blessing of all mankind. I would seek out the erring one and try to win him back to a righteous and a happy life. I would not seek to force people to live up to my ideals but rather love them into doing the thing that is right. I would live with the masses and help to solve their problems that their earth life may be happy. I would avoid the publicity of high positions and discourage the flattery of thoughtless friends. I would not knowingly wound the feelings of any, not even one who may have wronged me, but would seek to do him good and make him my friend. I would overcome the tendency to selfishness and jealousy and rejoice in the successes of all the children of my Heavenly Father. I would not be an enemy to any living soul. – George Albert Smith
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27Nov
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word “happy” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. – Carl Jung
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16May
“People like to say that everything’s ‘perfect,’ and you look around and see that life is anything but that! But just as a weight bench is perfect for strengthening muscles but too uncomfortable for sleeping or sitting back and watching TV, life provides the resistance you need to learn and grow. You didn’t come here to sit back, relax and feel happy all the time; you came here to grow, and the way to grow is to bravely face the problems before you and improve yourself in the process. Life’s imperfections provide perfect opportunities to build your spiritual muscles.” – Shaun Roundy
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18Mar
“The most welcomed people of the world are never those who continually look back upon the trials, the sorrows, the failures, the bitter frustrations of yesterday, but those who cast their eyes forward with faith, hope…courage, happy curiosity.” – James Francis Cooke
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05Apr
“You have the right to be happy.” – Sgt. Kevin Briggs (the Highway Patrol officer who helped prevent suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge for 19 years)
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11Apr
“Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.” – C.S. Lewis
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21Jun
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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01Feb
“If you want life to change, then you have to change. If you want life to get better, then you have to get better. What does it take to be happy? Progress. Progress equals happiness. Even if you’re not where you want to be yet, if you are on the road, if you’re improving, if you are making progress, you’re going to love it. You’re going to feel alive.” -Anthony Robbins
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23Mar
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.” – Charles Kingsley
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11Apr
“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.” – C.S. Lewis
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27Nov
You must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy. – Leo Tolstoy
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18Mar
“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.” – Albert Schweitzer
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24Dec
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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24Dec
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” -Anne Frank
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27Nov
One would suffer a great deal to be happy. – Mary Wortley Montagu
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26Dec
“Take risks. If you succeed, you will be happy. If you fail, you will be wise.” – Unknown
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27Nov
Look around and you’ll agree that the really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They’re full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too. – Norman Vincent Peale
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13Mar
“To keep the two of you happy, you have to keep your half perfect.” – Don Miguel Ruiz
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12Mar
“I want my children to be happy, and I love them achingly when they are sad, but I believe that if I succeed in sheltering them from adversity, I will have failed as a parent.” – Andrew Solomon
